This article is part of a six-part educational series in cooperation between The Rage and the non-custodial, peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange Vexl.

"If I had a world of my own," says Alice, "everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't."

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice discovers a world that has freed itself from normalcy as a definitional frame – a world in which men in hats hold tea parties and only speak in riddles, where cats give advice, and communicating strictly in poems is deemed totally acceptable.

Due to the inherent subjectivity of what we define to be normal, applying the frame of normalcy in governance is a tricky thing. Normalcy as a form of governance must always impose an understanding of what is normal, while denying the governed the free expression of what they deem to be normal.

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